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DOL - 19-24-003-03-315 - 02

Open · 2024-06-26

From report

Report
COVID-19: ETA's Oversight of Short-Time Compensation Did Not Detect $126.9 Million in Questioned Costs
OIG report number
19-24-003-03-315
Recommendation number
02

Recommendation text

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training review states’ compliance with Short-Time Compensation (STC) eligibility requirements and require all states with STC agreements to return federal funds used for reimbursements of STC benefit payments for weeks of unemployment beginning before March 27, 2020, and ending after September 6, 2021, as well as for reimbursements that exceeded benefits paid.